The heathen being overthrown, Israel is free, and may have her king again. Therefore Zechariah is ordered—it would appear on the same day as that on which he received the Visions—to visit a certain deputation from the captivity in Babylon, Heldai, Tobiyah and Yedayah, at the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have just arrived; and to select from the gifts they have brought enough silver and gold to make circlets for a crown. The present text assigns this crown to Joshua, the high priest, but as we have already remarked, and will presently prove in the notes to the translation, the original text assigned it to Zerubbabel, the civil head of the community, and gave Joshua, the priest, a place at his right hand—the two to act in perfect concord with each other. The text has suffered some other injuries, which it is easy to amend; and the end of it has been broken off in the middle of a sentence. _And the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying: Take from the Gôlah,[878] from Heldai[879] and from Tobiyah and from Yeda‛yah; and do thou go on the same day, yea, go thou to the house of Yosiyahu, son of Ṣephanyah, whither they have arrived from Babylon.[880] And thou shall take silver and gold, and make a crown, and set it on the head of....[881] And say to him: Thus saith Jehovah of Hosts, Lo! a man called Branch; from his roots shall a branch come, and he shall build the Temple of Jehovah. Yea, he shall build Jehovah’s Temple,[882] and he shall wear the royal majesty and sit and rule upon his throne, and Joshua[883] shall be priest on his right hand,[884] and there will be a counsel of peace between the two of them.[885] And the crown shall be for Heldai[886] and Tobiyah and Yeda‛yah, and for the courtesy[887] of the son of Ṣephanyah, for a memorial in the Temple of Jehovah. And the far-away shall come and build at the Temple of Jehovah, and ye shall know that Jehovah of Hosts hath sent me to you; and it shall be if ye hearken lo the voice of Jehovah your God...._[888] FOOTNOTES: [777] iv. 6. Unless this be taken as an earlier prophecy. See above, p. 260. [778] ii. 9, 10 Heb., 5, 6 LXX. and Eng. [779] See above, p. 214, where this is stated as an argument against Kosters’ theory that there was no Return from Babylon in the reign of Cyrus. [780] Vv. 17 and 19. [781] See Zechariah’s Fifth Vision. [782] xliv. 1 ff. [783] xlv. 22. [784] xliv. 23, 24. [785] Its origin was the Exile, whether its date be before or after the First Return under Cyrus in 537 B.C. [786] Fourth Vision, chap. iii. [787] vi. 9-15. [788] See ver. 11. [789] ii. 20-23. [790] iii. 8. [791]‎ חִלָּה אֶת־פְּנֵי יהוה. The verb (Piel) originally means _to make weak_ or _flaccid_ (the Kal means _to be sick_), and so _to soften_ or _weaken by flattery_. 1 Sam. xiii. 12; 1 Kings xiii. 6, etc. [792] First Vision, chap. i. 11. [793] Second Vision, ii. 1-4 Heb., i. 18-21 LXX. and Eng. [794] Eighth Vision, chap. vi. 1-8.